by Sarah Brindell

Carrots shape the subjects

Onions, the predicates

Beef enacts the bond

between the phrases.

Now lost: the crisp

initial rawness

of each diced potato

as words meld together

simmer by simmer

into a stew.

How good the seared definitions

and target explanations

begin to taste

as their meanings combine,

cooked phrase-organisms emerge,

and syllables bask

in amalgamated perception.